From horned devils to greedy money lenders, images have been
used as weapons against Jews for thousands of years. Even
photojournalist social reformers of the early twentieth century
reinforced derogatory stereotypes of Jews as wretched, immoral, and
dirty. Little attention has focused, however, on the ways in which
Jews themselves have attempted to counteract these views and to
construct their own ethnic and political identities.
In The Jewish Self-Image in the West, Michael Berkowitz examines
dozens of visual renderings from the fin-de-siecle to the beginning
of the Second World War to argue that Jews have exercised some
control over representations of their own national communities and
aspirations. In the decades before the Holocaust, organized
segments of Jewry enthusiastically appropriated modern media in
order to exert a greater influence over their public images.
Presenting photographs and graphic images by Jews as attempts to
disrupt or undermine prevailing perceptions, Berkowitz reconstructs
the development of the Jewish self-image in the West over a crucial
half-century."
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